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This Just In: Darrelle Revis is Awesome, AP is Clueless

…in other news, kittens are cute and water is wet. I know. But (with all apologies to CuteSports), how exactly is Charles Woodson Defensive Player of the year? By a 2 to 1 margin?

You have seen Darrelle Revis play, right?

Yes, I know interceptions and defensive touchdowns are the “flashy” stats, and Woodson had 9 of one and 3 of the other (Revis, by comparison had 6 INT and scored once). But you know what a defender’s main goal is? To stop the other team’s offense. Here’s what some of the league’s star receivers did against Revis this year:

Actually, in the case of those two common opponents, both Winslow and Ochocinco averaged their second highest yards per catch of the season in the games they played against Woodson. Make of that what you will.

I don’t deny Woodson is a great cornerback. But Revis made the leap this season from “better than average” to “nearly unstoppable.” At the very least this should have been a win for Woodson in an excrutiatingly tight vote, not the 2-1 cakewalk it was.

3 thoughts on “This Just In: Darrelle Revis is Awesome, AP is Clueless”

I’m a Packers fan, but you are definitely right. Woodson is what one would call “handsy”. He seems to get away with pass interference penalties. It may not be a blatant takedown, but he still has his hands all over the receiver.